Blogs

Some Minor Miracles

Submitted by sitemaster on Wed, 2017/04/19 - 4:16pm

There was a frisson of excitement throughout clubs in the Region as the quarterly Ranks Report was released just before Easter. If you've never heard of those before, they report the top ten most successful players by gender in each of the ten ranks (like in the army: Boot Camp to Brigadier corresponds with Unranked to Gold Grandmaster). You may download your own copy by clicking here.

Rubber-Dub-Dub

Submitted by sitemaster on Mon, 2017/04/10 - 12:29pm

The Waikato-Bays section of the national Dan Gifford Rubber Bridge competition started at Putaruru last Sunday 9th April. There was a good turnout for Clare Coles' presentation on what it's all about and a number of first-round matches were completed either side of a very fine lunch organised by members of the host club. The ladder may be viewed under the Results tab on this site. The Cambridge club has gotten so enthusiastic about rubber bridge that they've organised a rubber competition for non-Juniors alongside the Junior Championship series starting this Wednesday.

Great New Concept from The Mount

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2017/03/28 - 2:09pm

Talk about multi-sport .. just add canoeing and this could be a triathlon! The Mount club have come up with a revolutionary concept to take place on the 15th of May .. golf in the morning, bridge after lunch! Read about it in this link.

Challenge to all WB Clubs - it's time for Rubber Bridge again!

Submitted by Rona D on Thu, 2017/03/23 - 10:18am

As you undoubtedly know, each year the Dan Gifford Rubber Bridge competition is played at National Congress and pairs from all regions participate.

The Waikato-Bays has had some very good partnerships in the past who have given the other regional pairs a good run for their money, including Christine and Jenna Gibbons who won the national title in 2012.

Bill Gates a Winner .. at Bridge

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2017/03/21 - 9:47am

Bill Gates in 2015There's a report in the Kansas City Star of billionaire Bill Gates' winning team at the North American Nationals - a huge event of over 5000 players - currently taking place in Kansas City. This news comes via the Tauranga site and is good fodder for this weekly column which saves you the hassle of whipping round all websites in the region to find out what's going on.

This Friday night ... it's the first round of the inaugural TWITs (The Waikato Interclub Teams) in Hamilton. Numbers are looking good but there's still time until 5pm Wednesday 29th to make an entry in any grade from your club. Don't miss out on the fun!!

Introducing The TWITs

Submitted by sitemaster on Mon, 2017/03/20 - 11:19am

Di Emms has made these three cuties to be presented as trophies to the best-performed teams in each grade on each of the seven nights of the inaugural TWITs series (The Waikato Interclub Teams). The object for any club fielding teams in all grades is, of course, to take home three of them after each session. Possession of even one confers bragging rights on that club for one month.

Junior, Indi, and Oscar

Bridge Babes Hit the Highest Levels of NZ Bridge!

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2017/03/14 - 5:59pm

Standing as a tag team, Cambridge's Clare Coles and Jane Stearns have been elected to the two vacant positions on the Board of New Zealand Bridge!! The new chairman will be Alan Dormer of Auckland.

Cambridge has long been a prime beneficiary of the talents of these two ladies. Both hugely talented, accomplished, entrepreneurial, they declared themselves as standing on neither side in the current arguments within the Board.

Their manifesto declared their underlying values to be:

Good group contests the 2017 Waikato Bays Novice Event

Submitted by Anna on Sun, 2017/03/12 - 6:28pm

A late flurry of entries perhaps due to the expected rain saw 7 full tables of newish players come together at the Waikato Bays Novice held in Matamata - a car load from Taupo joined other players from Te Aroha, Waihi, Putaruru,Hamilton, Morrinsville, Huntly and Waikato clubs as well as the host club Matamata. Full results may be seen by clicking here and scrolling down to "Sunday".

A Little Trouble in the Big Smoke

Submitted by sitemaster on Tue, 2017/03/07 - 10:35am

The North Island Teams 20A tournament took place in Auckland over the weekend just gone. Congratulations to Hamilton pair Jenny Millington and Barry Jones who, with long-time team-mates Patrick Carter and Julie Atkinson came second in this marathon of bridge. Full results may be seen by clicking here.

One amusing tale from the weekend ..

NZ Bridge Board Elections close soon - please vote

Submitted by Rona D on Tue, 2017/03/07 - 8:41am

To all Waikato Bays Bridge Clubs:

Voting for the elections for the Chairperson of NZ Bridge and two Board members closes soon (I think votes have to be received by 14 March, but please check your voting papers)

Please, if haven't voted already, vote now!

You will have received much correspondence on this subject. The Regional Committee has passed on all correspondence we have been asked to, although this does not imply an endorsement or otherwise of the opinions expressed.

Please make up your own minds as to who you think will best represent NZ Bridge going forward.

Recent blog posts